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Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand (www.forbes.com)
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[–] nydas@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

While I love to jump on the anti-Elon bus, I have to query: the highest accident rates, or highest accident rates as a percentage of vehicles on the road? If you have 10 Tesla cars on the road, and there are 2 MGs on the road, and 2 Telsas and one MG crashes, then what? 20% of Tesla vs. 50% of MG, but also that could be framed as ‘double the number of Teslas crash compared to MGs’ or ‘Tesla has the highest accident rate of any auto brand’.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Good question

Tesla drivers had 23.54 accidents per 1,000 drivers. Ram (22.76) and Subaru (20.90) were the only other brands with more than 20 accidents per 1,000 drivers for every brand.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

lol, Ram isn't even a make (the make would be Dodge), but owners are such bad drivers that they have a category of their own.